Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.